2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Should the next Democratic president apologize to Latin America for all past US intervention? [View all]okasha
(11,573 posts)But when you say that the US was "chiefly responsible" for an "unjust past" throughout the Americas, you're simply wrong. The genocide of the indigenous population by Spanish and Portuguese forces began some 250 years before the United States came into existence. The genocide under Spain extended from Argentina and Chile, where it was almost complete, to California, where a number of tribes were extinguished. That is the first and foundational sin
in the hemisphere, and its effects are still felt.
Exploitation by the US is an overlay of that oppression, and has been made possible largely through alliances with local European-style dictators. Galtieri, Somoza, Pinochet come to mind.
It's in North America that the US is primarily guilty, and what is needed is far, far beyond an apology. Yes, you keep saying you see the need for more, but you don't seem to be able to name even one specific measure the government might take. That's pretty useless.